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"AP sports, I'm sure Freeman, the Los Angeles Lakers could be without LeBron James for several weeks, James has suffered a foot injury with more test results pending. A huge loss for the Charlotte hornets, lamella ball broke his ankle, while injured himself on a non contact play, he had 18 points on 6 three pointers in Charlotte's one 17 one O 6 weight over Detroit. Jimmy Butler took over in the final minute and a half to help lead Miami to a one O one 99 win at Philadelphia. We got some stocks, got out in transition. In Juan, no matter how we do it, we got one on the road. Here in Philly, and that's all we want. James Harden had a chance to win the game for the sixers, but his three pointer at the buzzer bounced out. New York over Boston one O 9 94 and Orlando beat New Orleans one O one 93. Jimmy haslam from the NFL's Cleveland Browns is now in the NBA as well. He has purchased 25% stake in the Milwaukee Bucks from bucks co owner, Marc lasry. In the NHL, Colorado best at Las Vegas for nothing that's a 6th straight win for the ebbs and right wing mikko rantanen. I think the defensive habits we have been we've been really, really good at those better than we were before, you know, and even if we're not playing that great overall, we're just still defending hard. Vancouver top Dallas 5 four and overtime, Anaheim for Chicago two, Ottawa beats Detroit 6 to two Boston overcame two goals from high scoring Conor McDavid to win their 7th in a row. Grew in Nick foligno, says giving up to two on contested goals to McDavid as a reminder, the bruins aren't perfect. Don't get me wrong. Guys, best player in the world, obviously. But, you know, you give them a couple, right? And I think in our game, if we can limit those, we just become a more dangerous team. And I think that's something that we can work towards and just understanding how crucial those little moments are and not giving teams momentum. Barry traps will be the new GM in Nashville. He takes over the summer for the retiring David poyle. NFL quarterback Carson Wentz has been released after one season with Washington, college basketball, 7th ranked Baylor by 6 over Oklahoma state. Check Freeman. AP sports.
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"Black and white. Think red. Ten 15 is rob wood fork. All right, the wizards back in the win column after three straight losses. They beat the Charlotte hornets one 18 one O four they earn a split of the first two games of their three game home stand, fun fact from the NBC sports Washington broadcast, the wizards this season, 21 and three when they allow 111 points or less Bradley Beal. It was just kind of putting us in the right positions at the right time. And you know, we just making those extra effort plays to stay in a place to engage and keep them from scoring. We do a good job. We have two twin towers in there that are almost impossible to kind of score on sometimes. And us as guards, sometimes we are called the crackdown on their man on rebounds and getting to mix a lot more and help them out on boards and blocking shots. So it's good that we have that type of activity where active with our hands and being engaged on it. That was Beale's first game back in the lineup, 17 points, ten assists, also not you in a double double Denny abdia with 20 points 13 rebounds that's his 8th double double of the season. Georgetown just went final at Providence. They fall 74 62, so the hoyas remain winless on the road this season at George Washington, how about a double overtime thriller as the colonials outlast Richmond one O 7 one O 5, a much needed conference when their four GW navy won its third straight beating buck Nell tonight's George Mason, American and Virginia tech, all losing their respective games. Rob woodfork WTO sports. Ten 17 and the parents of two Virginia kids who watched a 6 year old classmate shoot their teacher last month are planning to sue the school system
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Giannis-less Bucks cruise to 105-96 win over Hornets
"A night after scoring 40 points in a loss to the Lakers, two time MVP Yanis sante to compose sat to rest a sore knee. No problem, Bobby portis led the bucks with 20 points as Milwaukee cruise to a one O 5 96 win over the Charlotte hornets. Everybody sacrifices everybody works entirely, you know, extremely hard on this team. There's no egos. Everybody just wants to see everybody wearing. Jordan Mora added 17 points and Brooks Lopez and javon Carter each scored 14 for the bucks. Terry Rozier led the hornets with 26 points, but Charlotte had its three game home winning streak halted. I'm Ben Thomas.
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"Dave Johnson Never a good thing when you're stuck in mother ice happened to the capitals last night against penguins four one law said coach Peter laville lead. Time you play Pittsburgh. It's kind of a game dragged through the model a little bit. There's not a lot of rum. It's not pretty, it's not flashing. And they weren't right now the capital's struggling and struggling with injuries, Marcus Johnson, the only goal last night. Hey, the wizards Jordan Goodwin. The story I'm telling you about, you know, he did not miss a shot in the game on Monday in the win over the Charlotte hornets and his mindset. Yeah, that really was a worry about offense. I was just letting it come to me. You go back and watch the film, all the shots I came to wasn't rush wasn't one on one. It was in the plays and just the ball just came to me. I just shot the ball and it just went in. She cultural love here and that he was thinking defense and he ends up scoring tonight. They'll take all the Dallas Mavericks debut their city edition, cherry blossom, Jersey. So wearing pink on a cherry blossom chord. Maybe that'll throw off Luka Dončić because you have to take all the Dallas Mavericks. Hope you enjoy me, east patellar golf links on Saturday Haynes point hosting a foot golf tournament. Alex bearman is with district sports. Really kind of a unique experience. It's just a good time out with friends. It's a long time soccer player. We've gotten a little bit older, not as quick on the field. It's nice to be able to still enjoy parts of the game with friends out there on the course. So you don't have to run around, you have to kick the ball, and they've designed special holes so you can kick it in the hole. You know, some of us use a foot on the golf course every now and then anyway. But the great thing this benefits the MS society and you can check out my story at WTO P dot com I expect to see you there Saturday. It'll be a bigger bowl for you to kick
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"Here's Frank hunter Ann We got baseball underway after the Ryan Zimmerman ceremony retiring his number 11 Jersey and the Nats are going to try to win one for the Z man who's now the special adviser for baseball and business operations just underway That's in the Philly scoreless in the top of the first Nats trying to snap a 7 game losing skid O's already up two zip over the race Bottom two at camp the yards U.S. open golf third round action from Brookline Massachusetts Colin Morikawa Scotty scheffler Aaron wise and Patrick Rogers all your co leaders one shot advantage They were at minus four slew of golfers one back at three under par MLS tonight D.C. United visiting the Chicago fire And in the NBA Kenny Atkinson is going to stay with Golden State as a team's top assistant and not accept the head coaching job of the Charlotte hornets Just in a way Nats Philly scoreless on Ryan Zimmerman day at Nats park Frank Ann Randy will be sports The top stories were falling for you today on WTO P a developing situation at Tyson's corner center mall right now Please say a weapon was fired after a fight broke out between a small group it sent people into a panic but police say this was an isolated situation Big news for parents with young kids The director of the CDC has signed off on COVID vaccines for those younger children after a panel of advisers gave their green light lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to talk to commanders owner Dan Snyder a House oversight committee is holding a hearing next week Around the team's alleged toxic workplace culture Snyder's lawyer lawyer says he can't make it because of a scheduling conflict Lawmakers have sent him a letter urging him to reconsider Stay with WTO for more on these stories in just minutes Do you have a bunch of unused COVID tests at home Are you wondering if some of those expired ones are okay to use The expiration dates on some rapid tests have been extended by three or even 6 months by their manufacturers It's happening because in the time since the test first came out the companies that make them found evidence that they have a longer shelf life than originally thought This is not true for all at home COVID tests The FDA keeps a running list of which test kits have extended expiration dates and you can check if yours is on that list at WTO P dot com Michelle bash WTO news It's four 48 Sergio Conway in the WTO traffic.
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Banner night for Heat, who hang on and top Hornets 114-99
"Jimmy Butler poured in thirty two points in the heat wasted most of a twenty six point lead before posting a one fourteen ninety nine win over the Hornets bam Adebayo had twenty six points and nineteen rebounds on the night his Olympic gold medal banner was unveiled in Miami Tyler hero scored twenty six points off the bench for the heat who enjoyed a sixty thirty seven rebounding advantage Gordon Hayward scored twenty three points and miles bridges had twenty two for Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo ball struggled with his shot hitting just two of fourteen from the field I'm the ferry
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"Thirty eight yeah. Yeah know. I would say i'm right there with you and i think it's hard to because the scene is like we talked about there's so much variance and what it could look like this year like if they won thirty games wouldn't be that shocked if they also like if they somehow luck into winning forty or forty one. I would be a little bit surprised. But also like i don't think that's totally out of the park So to me like that feels like one of the bigger ranges that i have for coming into the year and one of the things that that really hinges on one of the last thing i want to talk about is the defense because i think you can go back and look this defense. They finished eighteenth last year. And i still have no idea how sometime you watching them play It's just a lot of a lot of over helping a lot of Screaming close outs. That you don't really need to be Honestly really poor point of attack defense like. I think that's one of the reasons. I was higher on google assigning because he probably steps in automatic news. The best point of attack defender on the team. Like i don't think it's necessarily close either Like i do think there are a lot of guys who can be impactful off the ball necessarily consistent on this team. And i think that's what i look for a lot this year because that could be one of the bigger jumps that we see is like. I'm not expecting it. But like if you see like three or four guys just become more consistent off ball defenders than that drastically changes how i view what the defense community year. Yeah so you mentioned Puerto attack defense. I would actually say last year from last year. Seemed the best film. Was probably cody. Martin but it's debatable. Whether his offense is good enough to just five minutes at this point. I'm not sure if he's rotation player anymore or abrego as a rotation player anymore So i would be happy for him to see that title to To uber or anybody else who was willing to pick it up and improve their level of. Yeah so i think The hornets ran zone by far the most of any team in the nba. Notches vanilla zone. They're running all sorts of exotic Exotic or junk defenses depending on your point of view and you know especially for the first twenty games. I mean it worked but there is no point at which i felt. That was a even a top twenty Defense yeah i didn't didn't view them as that at all so from my perspective..
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"That's on defensive line. And you mentioned his is conditioning at the beginning of leicester which was very evident In terms of his movement on the court but if he can put those both together he seems to be in better shape than he's ever been before if he can truly be solid or better defensively across both of those positions. That is massive for the upset of of this entire roster. Because that just gives you so much more flexibility now at what you do the two three and four you know that he can hold down either one of those so Yeah that was. That was lesson i was gonna mention on there. Were you about to transition to Yeah so. I think it's a logical off like you mentioned At this team almost has too many wings in some ways which isn't like you know it's in some ways like Like there are people were like varying on that. But i also think at the same time you have to have a way to make everybody play part of that is going to be like their. I'm james rego. Is one of the guys who i've i've felt good about how he's able to get everyone time and finding ways to just mix his rotation and look at things like you mentioned I definitely was higher on the kelly. Oubre assigning than i think most people lake i think again like looking at it through a different ones A he's not starting like he might start. I don't know you never know how things will shape up and work out. But i just look at it. More in terms of number one. The style for him did not make sense in golden state. And i think more on steve. Kerr not finding to integrate them like yes. Kelly raise probably bottom five passers among forwards in the nba. Like it's gotta be up there but at the same time you knew that coming in like if you can't factor him into how you player system that's on you. That's not necessarily on a player who you know. This is how he plays. You can't fix somebody. As a passer like instantaneously. I actually thought defensively who saw last year like and e pm. I think it was like eighty six percentile on in defense and pm Most important like he's just good at being big and in the way he can get back. He's not always great off the ball but he saw it on the ball. He's longest shit and he makes good plays more often than not so that matters This team definitely needed more defense. And just more size on the wing and i think they kind of needed another back because as much as i like jay mcdaniels. We'll talk about him too but like he's not there yet So i just think in terms of like yeah. It's it's a decent amount of money but also like it's not that much compared to like a the cap is going to spike in a couple years anyways be he's a replacement he's an a slightly above Replacement level or at replacement level wig regarding regarding. How you view him. But i thought it was a fine signing like the fact that people want to come and sign in. Charlotte means something in my opinion like again. That's not necessarily winning you games lake. Okay if you're able to bring free agents in and get them to play in your system. And they look good and more importantly like just having guys that want to be that that matters like being able to like most teams like if india the indiana pacers would have loved to have kelly gray at like the mid level exception or something is happening for them..
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"Were recognized as being sort of a transition. We're not where we want to be. We want to be you know much much higher and really sort of pushing the envelope on that in burrito has talked about that fact that like we've got stop on defense But then when we get stops it needs to turn into offense very very quickly because there just aren't that great half court players on this right now and it's pretty clear that mid cup jack and borrego or on the bait but really committing to that so you think that's another way in which we may look at. Balkan veered say like he improved by one percent. Here went down by two percents. There was this really good year But he's so good and so talented. And i think the style in the process and the ability to sort of run the offense the barilla wants to run is more important than those little fluctuations in in the shots. Yeah exactly and i think one of the things that that has excited about this year two for lamelo is the addition mason. Plumlee which to most people are like Like hawaii excitement mason. Plumlee like sue people who did not watch the hornets consistently last year. A number one. I think this is trying to be fair. I think this mac bomba was the worst rotation player in the nba last year or close to it Like he is not contributing the same way defensively that he did at one point in time. He's obviously never really been an awesome defender in in charlotte at least not in the second time around And offensively as so rougher in like he cannot catch the ball. Still i remember. I was talking to our richer annual over at busby at the beginning of last year. And i literally like. I mastered like holy shit. This caught the ball on a roll and like He like made like a kickout pass. Oh my god this is like doomsday's happening and like that's just kind of like an indicator that's whereas offense wasn't that again like he's had until his offense player point being you're subbing out a thousand minutes of biz mac beyond who starting large chunks of last year. I love cody zeller. Like i think he was a huge edition for the blazers. If healthy is the issue like going back through the last couple years. I think in the last five years cody zeller has played less than two thirds of all possible beams and that was just such a big problem last year. Like i think you saw how good they were with. Cody zeller on court. Like when cody was on court like that was the best team i think ever looked other than some of the smaller lamps that they run to close games but again it's hard that throughout the throughout the year you have to have variation in the regular season like i look at this and i'm like okay. Well mason plumbing this guy who other than last year and part of it is using held out because of the pistons like being they were clearly tanking but other than last year he's played in over..
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"Acute appreciate that Even in the the realm of space jam odd just have to say. I you know the nba draft. Was you know a couple of days ago. And i'm excited for the the end. Up so he actually so you a basketball fan now. I've been a basketball fan. You when you become a basketball fan. Haven't seen list. You never see me talk about the charlotte hornets. I mean you excited right now but it is not because of basketball. You watch the draft way too closely. You got favorite pairs class. Bryce i don't know how feel about that. What are you. What are you what. What's making you root for the pistons now. Bryce what's his name. Okay always been a huge supportive. Detroit bet you are okay. I'm gonna call you every time it'd be like bryce what what's the scoring game. You know my. I would say this. Because when i started talking about the charlotte hornets window and my friend. Joey every similar things to me. But listen i knew all of the stats of lamelo ball. Rebounds i knew how many assists avenue how many games he played wouldn't even now. I was very worried about rookie of the year. Listen i'm not calling rookie of the year just yet but i definitely a fan of the pistons. The drawing this guy yeah. Well if you're listening make sure. I'll go check out bryce that story because he's going to be posted about the pistons a lot. This season not gonna listen. Mantra first of all i recorded today an always on my way through. I'm looking to to pick up. But like two or three more teams to to my the purple world not only world the purple purple world. Okay okay well. We'll keep up with them. Maybe we'll do. We'll do the weekly sports update with the purple pants. I don't know what we'll figure it out what works happy.
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LaMelo Ball Rumored to Be Dating 32-Year-Old Instagram Model
"Lamelo ball is nine thousand nine hundred. He's the reigning nba rookie of the year. He is the younger brother of lonzo any plays for the charlotte hornets. He is now dating a thirty two year old instagram model anna montana and they were seeing together in a date which is led many fans criticizing montana for dating someone a lot younger than her. The word predatory is being used a lot of these. She's thirty two he's nineteen. What do you think i'm fine with. It lindsey what are you guys. These guys are these guys yeah. They're grown men. They can make these decisions. You wanna know what nineteen a grown man. You've lived overseas lithuania when you were sixteen. Or whatever he was he's he's been all over the world he's been. I mean he's should be worldly by now now. He made a big stink in that article about not going to college. And i didn't need to learn anything there and yada yada yada so make about what you will but i just think he's having the kid who cares you. Don't let them go. Let them get married. Or if he's gonna get married making planet pre-nup but
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Terry Rozier Agrees to Four-Year, $97 Million Extension With Charlotte Hornets
"Getting paid in a major way. I was not expecting Terry to get the Supermax contract extension, but he did. $97 million over the next four years for Terry Rozier with the Charlotte Hornets. Terry had a great run at Louisville still holds the record for most points, scored in a season by a sophomore and had a great run in Boston. It was fun watching him play not only get a lot of minutes for a good team that was in contention, but the Celtics that was a great run they had, and he was a big factor in that. He goes to Charlotte. I think in his first year little underwhelming, they paid him a lot of money and then kind of quietly in his second season with the Hornets this past year, I had a really good year averaged 20 points per game shot 45% from three and I think it didn't get as much attention because the rookie on his team Lamelo ball ended up winning. Uh, the The rookie of the year, But yeah, Terry getting paid in a major way. That's uh,
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"How would you characterize this free agency. I i think we it's been up and down in terms of the excitement lot of interesting player movement but no like superstars switching teams. We i think we had talked about says going to be more about you. Know the secondary stars and role players switching teams re-signing with their teams is always exciting within gave the agency right. No matter like who is going where i mean we had some big moves with lowery trade and and some low names. We'll get to in a second but like you said it's kind of been up and down. It's kind of the dust has settled right now for free agency at the delay late last Signed a solid. God kelly oubre going to the charlotte hornets. That i mean. There's some you know what the quieter thing. I think you'll find a way to resign. What the la clippers I don't think there's any other significant names that are still unsigned By yeah like you mentioned. It's kind of been a roller coaster of you know right. Free agency opened. We saw a lot of names being signed than some of the bigger names light. Trae young steph curry. You know the max deals with the respective teams. Yeah and i think we we are starting to see a switching and philosophy whereas you know in the past decade. it's been all about clearing your your cap space to go. Sign a big free agent. And i think we're seeing more of a shift towards the idea that you will have to probably trade for that free agent and the free agent and not not not in the freed and yet the trade for that disgruntled superstar who still has years left on their deal but is unhappy and their situation..
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"Bads have done that. Where you just play two point guards together and maybe if even if neither moore star you have enough places to attack that you can get some offense. Maybe that's they could go to. There's definitely gonna nights where you're gonna want carter's energy to come in and you know maybe you're a little bit flat coming out of the gates and you know you know he's going to be picking up full court and if in the bubble at least certainly hitting a lot of threes. So you're definitely going to want his boost. I don't know what his exact day to day role is. But there's definitely situationally going to be times where you want him. And then going back to the bubble. The lineups with pain carter and booker. Were absolutely unbelievable. So that might be a trio that that you tried out there every so often when when paul's on the bench yeah that makes sense because they really i mean they only have probably at this point one true three minutes every every bryce issue more. Maybe could figure there at small forward as well. I think more to me is probably the guy that i would expect to get the lease playing time out of that yet. I agree mentioned. I think he's still capable but he's not as high volume of three point shooter. He's lost athleticism. As william not sure that he's a quality defensive option anymore i mean he's he can drive in and shoot his florida or he's not gonna kill you out there but it's hard to see what his plus skill is now. I think that's totally fine. Dining at the minimum. But maybe not a guy you want to count on in the rotation at this point in his career. I think's interesting about him. You go back to last year's roster if each one moore's your eleven twelve guy on the team like that's just such an upgrade over what their eleventh twelfth guy has been the last few years. Because that's still a guy you can throw out there. Get you some buckets. Once in a while you know you certainly playable player. Who can do some things for you which is just something the lack of depth. They just haven't had whatsoever the last few years. We're going to start at the fourth this. That is a tough question I would my cop out. Answer is situationally but my answer. If i really have to say someone. I'm going with cam johnson. I just love the way. He spaces the floor. What they did with that trio or quartet last year. A now you add in chris paul instead of ricky rubio. I just think that the amount of three point shooting that he gives you outweighs the kind of defensive versatility of jae crowder. I agree there and also crowder is a veteran. Also i think their bench group as we mentioned might be a little light on defense so maybe crowder can fit in there a little bit more again particularly if you want to potentially do more switching with that if you're gonna play at center so and i think we've got enough high usage guys crowder to me. Actually maybe takes a few more shots than you'd like most of the time. He was hitting him in miami. But i think seeing how fresh crowder was in the bubble i thought was a little bit of a revelation for me. 'cause he's just looked worn down the last few years and so keeping him fresh and then maybe particularly if you have a tough match up in the playoffs maybe you could slide him in in the past but i see no reason to play jae crowder a bunch of minutes and wear him down during the regular season. I just love the idea of cam. Johnson space in the floor for these other guys and just being a guy that you can't leave and so now you've got booker. Paul and aidan handling most of the heavy lifting and bridges and johnson space in the floor for them. I think that all fits together really really. Well yeah i agree completely. I mean that was why they were so effective in the bubble even when it was ricky rubio instead of chris. Paul can't tell you. how many open. Threes cam johnson got just. Because you've got a pick your poison and a more often than not you're looking at the direct threat and and that's that's the kind of shooter you went on the court Around a pick and roll type duo of pollen eight and then to say nothing of devon booker yes so johnson has missile time with left calf cramps early on and he's as these hip injury and some other nagging soft crowder often has some nagging injuries as well so there they might end up getting a little bit thin at those combo board three three and four spots if they have an injury or two or an absence or two i guess shall we say so yet. I'll depth look rate until you start playing and someone gets hurt. And yeah i mean you essentially have three wings there with with jay miquel and cam johnson. So it's pretty vital that you have all three of them when it really counts. Because there's there's just really not a lot behind them. Yeah i think ab- nater who came over from. Abc might be at other break. Glass in case of emergency guy who has really improved is shot and know never gotten a huge chance. You know he didn't really fit into kind of like what casey likes but he somewhat i think could get a few minutes again in the regular season it and not kill you hopefully is okay after You guys bouquet gotti jetted for a hard fall on him where he hit his head on the floor. Yesterday no you. He'll definitely get some time in the regular season. Because like you said those guys are going to miss some games especially without condense. The schedule is but just yet long-term or in the playoffs. You want to be going with those three wings with the majority of those minutes. Is there anything that you think. The national conversation hasn't been focusing on enough with these guys going into the season. I mean i think just one thing. That's interesting i think. The sun's moves of late just get panned so quickly. Just because they're the sons and they've been making bad moves for a decade so even like the the discourse around the tj. Warren trade was somewhat frustrating. Just because to me this was a guide seen with the suns for five years. And he's he's a guy who averages just over one assist a game you know and it was a really bad fit for what money williams wanted to do and even though the trade the value certainly was poor having to give up a second round. Pick a high one at that to get rid of him. it just made a lot of sense for what the team needed opening up the salary. Cap space for a tj warren. Certainly the six for eleven. Dario trade was another one. That actually has worked out really well So i think it's there's a lot of what are the sons doing because they've made a lot of head-scratching moves but then there's so many that have happened in the last two years and then if you go back and compare the roster from two years ago. It's kind of night and day. So i think that's one thing that i think that's something that i know. Sons twitter will often get frustrated with about the national discourse around the sons that The kind of looking at the small picture. And and james jones has proven himself to be a guy who doesn't care about asset valuation yet at the end of the day. He's got a much better. Roster yeah and they have gotten a lot better and i think you know if you put it to my head on the chris paul trade for example and said okay. Really the only way we can do this is by including hoop bray and this future pick..
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"Can you guard and lebron. He can hold up strength wise. But if you have anybody at the one through three at this point. He gets over screens incredibly well. He's really intense. He's got long arms like just loved what we saw from in the bozo and i think having a clear star starting role for him as a lower usage guy fitting in while with paul booker and aden. He's about as good as you could hope for their and then offensively. He's a really smart cutter. He may lead the league in points off. Cuts playing with chris. Paul and devon booker and then the big thing with him coming out of college she was a really good three point shooter at villanova his stroke. Let's say kind of developed a bit of a hitch and that's started to smooth. Its way out not sure. If it's exactly villanova bridges still. But he's proven himself to be a three point shooter. I think he was up to thirty six or so percent. Imagine we can get a little bit higher but yeah you're absolutely right. I don't know if if he's necessarily strong enough at this point to shut down to lebron's of the world although who is but even add to throw it another player since the son seemed to play them all the time he just does a great job on luca danni lucas doug and put up his numbers. But there's a couple of times where we're mckell will make them look silly so even even a player that caliber you can stick them on there. They're still going to score. But you can feel really good about the job he's going to do. And then how do you see the rotation shaking out at the four and five position. Yeah i think that's one of the really interesting parts about this team. So you draft the player number ten overall. You think this might be your last top ten. Pick for for quite a while. And jalen smith and i just don't know where he fits in on this year's roster per se obviously deandra eight and you expect to be playing thirty thirty five something like that minutes game and then dario shirts really established himself as somebody who you who can be somewhat of an offensive fulcrum with the second unit. Just really thrived. I think he might have been their third leading score and the bubble something like that Third or fourth certainly and you. You want a decent number of his minutes to becoming there. And then you've got cam. Johnson and jay crowder. Who are probably going to soak up a good majority of the four minutes. So i just don't know where jalen smith's time this year's going to be that you know that's okay rookies. Generally aren't that great in their first year but I see yeah. I don't know who's gonna start per se and who's gonna close between cam and jae crowder but i imagine they're gonna take the majority of the minutes of the four along with some of the time at the three behind mckell and then Dario certainly we'll take some of the four minutes as well as hopefully getting a decent bit of his time at the five yet. You know my hope as we talk about smith. I in some of what i've watched. I've watched these entire games. Their i two preseason games in utah but smith played largely at the four there. Now that's because they've had absences from kreider and cam johnson and charge so they didn't really have anyone else there to start landing yesterday. Yeah yeah yeah and even chris. Paul played yesterday so they've been putting out a skeleton crew. But i did think smith show to me more off the bounce face up. Ability is playing the four then. I thought that he had and they didn't play them at. The five bucks was a lot of damian jones if damian jones place for this team that's going to be a major problem i my hope is just not expect that. Yeah but my hope is that i mean you would obviously you would want to go to charlotte at backup center as the bubble instead of demon jones. That's a if he's out there. Maybe he will be for a few games but a break. Glass emergency yeah or maybe sign someone else off the street shirley or that he was. He was He struggled with the atlanta hawks last year. And obviously with the golan words before that. But that's enough talk of damian. John so yeah. The smith is interesting. I mean the purported to be a room sector. He's very thin. Meant they would like to move a little bit. They passed on a lot of players. I think that would have been nice. Fits halliburton is one. That i think would have been really nice next to booker in that same kind of you know lengthened. Galway role except he can dribble and has a ton more size in passing ability. He so that he would have been a nice fit. We'll see whether john smith is worth or not but the question becomes you know and if he can face up and play the four with his shooting and maybe be able to put it on the floor little bit. that's ice. You have some secondary rim protection out there but then can he stay with guys on. The perimeter is a question mark and then you know you'd think he would slot in as a backup five but he did look pretty thin out there. We'll see whether that's actually able to do or not very and you're right. I was watching some of those preseason games. I was amazed his ability to take a guy off the gerbil. Just because you don't expect that from a guy his size and then also have fluid was shooting threes so he has the skills you would one of a guy who certainly hope eventually largely a backup five but who can also play the four. It's still..
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"Yeah i mean. I think they finally put it all together. I felt at various points in the year they were just about. They're all year long. They're starting lineup. Is really good Their lineup with obviously uber. A and rubio not there anymore but with them and eight and booker and bridges. They were twenty points. Plus twenty points per under possessions Last season Which was third best in the nba. Minimum one hundred minutes so they're starting lineup really cooked. What was interesting to me. Was the bench was incredible in the bubble certainly compared to earlier in the season when they pretty much didn't have a bench dario charts really found himself as a as a small five. You mentioned campaign. He gave them the backup point guard. They didn't have all your he. He was playing out of his mind hitting a ton of threes. I don't know that. Sustainable per se and giovan carter too but i think that was one of the things that was largely ah different. But i think the dominance of the starting lineup really wasn't different. I think that was something that had happened. All season under the radar but the team in totality. The bench was so bad that it kind of took away from that. So i think that What booker did and what bridges did and and cam. Johnson who certainly took a step forward in the bubble. Bo is pretty good all year. I think that was real like you said you're not gonna win one hundred percent of your games. They certainly had a couple of games. For example against oklahoma city. Were pretty much only chris. paul played. They missed him bead. It's at that point of the year. A lot of teams were arresting there guys for the playoffs. They certainly got some the. They missed porzingas in the last game so they certainly had some of that lock but at the same time. I think the starters playing well is legit. Yeah i i would say. Three of those eight wins off the top. My head were against teams. That just weren't trying it all definitely. So that's you know. And they had another game. That was really close clippers. Which was one of the best games of the season is a and they were. They were trying. Yes yes they definitely were trying it in that one And trying hard enough to follow devon booker on on his gaming called but So i think that that's really an important point to make. Is that the reason. These guys weren't seriously in playoff contention during the regular season last year was just these massive hopes that they had in this this rosser and you know they weren't quite atlanta hawks level of bad but you mentioned the two guys rubio and booker and the starting lineup. I and rubio crooked for. I think he had the best net rating on the team last year. We did yeah And then you know like thanks to backups. Yeah yeah. I mean they were like something like you know plus five or something when when he was on the floor which for a blow five hundred team to have a starter with a plus five and is still have a negative net rating is pretty ugly. And then you mentioned that. They couldn't score with booker off the floor. And that's why. I'm so excited about some of these additions. And maybe you could say. They're relying a little bit too much on cameron payne to do what he did. In the bubble. I mean he. That was just such an underrated thing to have him there and not just be hemorrhaging during those minutes but he played well enough to me that he deserves a shot at those backup point guard minutes. But if he doesn't work out. I really liked that. They had this other plan of they signed links and galway great contract for him. He's sort of the exact guy. You would want next to devon booker if not gonna have a traditional point guard who can guard the other teams point guard and light it up from three so you could easily slide him in as backup point guard. If it's not working out with pain next to booker and then of course they'll have paul To run the offense when booker is out so pretty much everywhere. Now as you look up and down this roster they've got like ten deep in berry solid mba players at this point. Yeah absolutely and to your point there. I think the biggest question mark is who what is what are you going to get from your backup guards because you have a ton of them you have a pain and carter than you have galloway and each one more Certainly not all of them are going to be playing consistently. but also. I don't know when you talk about an eight-man playoff lineup Rotation excuse me. I don't know which one of those guys is. That eighth player you know. And even further if booker polar out for a large period of time. I don't know which one of those guys is gonna step up and really be that offensive fulcrum obviously campaign unbelievable in the bubble. But you don't expect that level that necessarily sustain itself based on what he's done in his career. Yeah as long as he can give you capable backup point guard minutes so i feel okay particularly because he'll probably be playing most of his minutes next to devon booker he's gonna have to do that much And then on the wing. They did lose kelly. Oubre you who is a big piece. Didn't play for them in the bubble though right the i'm not sure how much that changed the dynamic but it did allow mikhail bridges to take over and bridges really emerged as one of the best defenders in the league. I will take the l on this one. I was a little bit skeptical after his rookie year. You're telling me oh man. This guy is like unbelievable. He's this hawk. And i'm like yeah you know like i mean it seems a little skinny. Like seems like he'd be a good team developed. The numbers on him were awesome. But i was li- discounted those. Because i felt like there was just a nobody else who even had like any kind of a brain or any kind of effort defensively two years ago on the wing But no. I mean f- when i really had a chance to lock him in the but i think he was better in the bubble as while but that tj warren game in particular when warren was coming off averaging like forty points a game he is for three games. The bubble and he just erased tj. Warren and so. I'm not sure that bridget. You know the next step for him is going to be. Can you guard and lebron. He can hold up strength wise. But if you have anybody at the one through three at this point. He gets over screens incredibly well. He's really intense..
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"Can't have a qualifying offer out there making a restricted frigid anymore or he signs elsewhere those move onto the charlotte hornets and what is their financial situation. The hornets books are. I mean there another team that could theoretically go either direction but it seems more clear that the hornets will function with cap space because it makes more sense and the inflection point there is bleak bunk. We'll talk about him a little bit later. But a good working assumption is that the hornets will have twenty two twenty three million in space to work with depending on a couple of restricted free agents and roster holds. And all that type of stuff. They're still paying. Nikola platoon counts nine million on their books for this coming season because they had to stretch him. Declared the space for gordon hayward now gordon hayward worked out very well in your one but that is so twenty two twenty three million to work with along with the number eleven pick that can get you some meaningful upgrade absolutely and it is an making monkey restricted free agent pretty much the similar situation with market in his cap sixteen million. So if they do that it would eat into their space qualifying offer. Actually i'm not sure you may have not made the here's qualifying offer to be a little bit lower. The other variable is devante graham who hit the starter criteria. He has a capital of four point. Seven million dollars that has also his qualifying offer so they'll keep that on the books if they wanted to remove that that could get him to twenty five million space so i don't know why they would do that. I think graham will probably is probably going to be a backup here going forward but you might as well hold onto him and try and keep his salary down to some degree and have them be a part of what you're doing going forward signed into a good contract. He also could be tradable later. Solicit they're operating assumption. I think is twenty million dollars in cap space. They also have the eleventh overall pick in the draft. Nine guarantees for martin twins and joan mcdaniels. Probably all those get picked up at this point in time they got twelve players right now. They have the free agency of cody zeller so they basically have nothing at center right now beyond bows afraid to. They have no centers under contract. Is that where you expect them. To focus their energies. yes though. I don't think it's necessarily the only thing they have to do because they could go with cheaper options. Use the room exception. You know do other things but part of the reason. Why expect the hornets to use that. Money on a center is that there. Aren't that many other places for them to go. That make clear sense for charlotte. Nikola between a frigid he is. I think they are. They prohibited from bringing stretched him. I believe that they are. Yeah i think that might actually be the case although it may be if you signed somewhere else than you can. I don't. I don't think that's the case we we can look it up if we really need to. But so part of the reason why charlotte might be interested in center and theoretically they could use that money free agents or the most obvious one but they could trade for a player as well and neither do it as an imbalanced trade where they said something back and take on additional money or they just put that player into their cap space. Is that aiming high at center for charlotte could yield some real returns because if you think about lamelo ball as the foundation of the long term future of the team then your offense is going to be intriguing but this team still desperately needs a defensive identity and they also have a lot of spots filled by guys that mostly are not going to massively contribute to that defensive identity you know miles. Bridges can help. Pj washington at his best can help her. Rosier can help. But you need that person who's going to bring it all together and ideally. That person could either could do one of one of two other things so they can defending his mandatory. Whatever kind of theory of the case. James prego and the and one defensively but the other thing is either. I mean ideally somebody who do both but either somebody who runs the four really well and can can can get these looks of these kick aheads from lamelo ball and everything else and or somebody who can space the four because then in the half court. You're going to have a lot more space for ball and hayward and rosiere and everybody else to operate and the good news for them is. I think there are players. That at least can come closer to doing that. And one of them is your one of your. You said he was the best center available at especially now with surgery. Bacchus injury. That seems more true. And that's sean homes. Yeah homes excellent finisher on the pick and roll. He's got one of the best pick and roll. Floater games also can get up for some finishes twenty seven so the athleticism will be on the way. And i think he's a reasonable reasonably solid defensive center not elite but a guy who i think is a two way player. He's shown a little bit of ability to switch and some ability and that to me is very important for the way that borrego's played orange switch just about more than anybody any team. They also played a ton of zone as well and well. It would part of the reason they did. That is because they didn't have a traditional rim-protector who also was acceptable offensively and they played a lot of small units like with pj washington at center etc. It would be nice to have more of a defensive anchor where they can play more conventionally not have to just give up eight hundred billion threes a game and just kind of hope that teams missed the and you could junk up the game enough against teams to get by but actually like have a good defense instead of having the just like paper over the fact that you don't really have any great defenders so that's one possibility home certainly am the kings have the early bird rights on him. A writer on four years just over fifty million is the most that they could offer. The hornets obviously could beat that offer if they wanted to. I don't necessarily see other suitors out there for homes above the mid level. The some could be materialized If they don't go there daniel tyson. Someone who i think would be an interesting fit as well. Another kind of skinnier. More mobile center. I would like mantras harrell here a lot as they bench big pick and guy you know just having a really good roll man would be great for guys like graham and ball but you know heroin. I wouldn't wanna pay him that much either. I think we'll see what his market is. But yeah go ahead and then the other option. I don't wanna go through everyone. They could be. There would be trading for somebody under contract my. Let's call it. Best case scenario for the hornets would be figuring out something. If the compensation is there to get miles. Turner and supposedly according to g michaels reporting. They've always been extremely interested in miles. Turner because turner. He he you know. We saw the rim protection that he could provide last year in three years ago. Not as much two years ago and also turner his. I still think there's more there's more room to grow for him. As a three point shooter. Probably not the full. Jaren jackson volume plus success. But he can he can do some things there and my concern there. Is you know like spaces. The for i would. I do wanna pair of lamelo with an elite roll. Man like that is i think i think that unlocks him more than just having a ton of space and having him ice. Oh and blow by guys like i wanted to be able to play in that normal pick and roll game. I agree but i think getting the defensive upgrades that turner with joe. Turner is definitely better than these other guys. But also we don't know how available what the what the cost of that would be. That's why you go after. Unrestricted free agents is. It doesn't cost anything and i'm sure there will be some intrigue with jared allen because allen is younger. He's twenty three and rim runner. Can you know another guy who you think. Could maybe do more with the right. Pick and roll partner. But cleveland acquired him to. Cleveland can match reasonable offers on jared allen and charlotte if they if they want to draft up in mobile though that could change their thing that could change the. Maybe maybe there's a door that opens their. Maybe there's a door that opens with mitchell. Robinson depending on how. The knicks won a hill. That i don't think so in and for charlotte there's also the question. I mean another option..
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"But you still could offer him. You know you'd be in this situation. Like blake griffin was with the clippers. Were a five year deal especially you give them a player option. Eight percent raises. I mean that's just way more money than anyone else can offer. And so if that's not good enough at that point and again we're talking about a guy who's probably you know the twenty fifth best player in the nba. Something around that. Maybe he gets better next year. But you we're not talking about a guy who maybe it's not worth heaven and earth. He's definitely the best guy they've had since jimmy butler but you gotta this is why we do these player rankings. You have an understanding of kind of word this guy is and also you just know how this plays out right like i mean if he gets hurt or boots. Which isn't that good. And you're just like man. Were not ready to win right now. We gotta just. We're going to have to go through more extensive rebuild again. Then you have that information. So i maybe i i would do it. I would try to get it. Maybe for the seven million. But i don't think it's the end of the world if you don't renegotiating accent of and you could also say to them. Hey you know like we have this option again. All these other guys in who are really going to help us win this year and we can still pay you next year and he can kinda hopefully be on board with that. Understands that reality so yeah. It's a tough call. One other point on kind of. Let's call it your side of the ledger. I think we disagree slightly on this is that you could sell levin in the future on even if you necessarily don't wanna be here that still more money than you can get. You can find yourself somewhere else you know. What incidentally that's not necessarily blake griffin wanted. But it's what blake griffin got where he got the money and ended up somewhere else. But for me part of the reason why i think you make you make whatever you think is a reasonable offer this year is i think it's a good understanding of how willing zach levinas to return. You're getting information on. How likely he is to resign. In twenty twenty two by making the offer in twenty twenty one and if he's willing to leave money on the table already like his. That's whether it's the seven million or up to his full max. That's still a lot of money in the security of a of a max or mask max esque contract and so if he's willing to do that once because he's not sure the situation if the coming season doesn't go particularly well you could see him potentially do that again and so i would be more in line with if he if he's not willing to do those kinds of deals than i would be looking more moving him. Not like you have to do it. You know whatever you can get pettis on the dollar anything like that. But there's no way they would trade him even if he turns it down. But what i would do. Yeah well becau. Because that's the thing right like they just. They completely eliminated any kind of option that they have by making this trade and and they gave a lot of power like by by doing so. Because and i don't know what he wants whether lavina somebody who sees the risk premium and goes. I could get that money now. That's fantastic. i could be. I could be set up whether it's chicago or elsewhere or whether he is like. Hey this is my last big contract. The contract that he signs next will presumably run through his early thirties. And so levine. If he wants to you know be competing for championship. While he's at his best that that is his prerogative than he could be want somebody else and it is a challenging situation. And as you brought up. And i think this is just so important to emphasize the bulls. Whatever decision. zach levine. Makes it has a massive effect on their team quality and viability this coming year and moving forward. Yeah and you know the sad part is even if all this goes right for them are like maybe they can be in competition for the succeed next year. It would shock me if they got court abandoning it could happen. We're the atlanta hawks by the nba. Finals here but does i think we need to the. It's actually. I mean. What the sons in the hawks have done. This year is going to lead to so many bad decisions. Down the line by other teams thinking that they competed. All you need to do is get in the mix and you never know what could happen. Yeah yeah this year. Is these last. Two years were Up even aberration. I'd say maybe this is like a new normal now and we just because we don't have any super teams. But i mean that's super team. They just got hurt anyway. so let let's hit a few more than nuts and bolts here on the bulls. They've got marketing situation. It just seems unless they stay over the cap. There's just no way that he's going to be back. It would seem like maybe he could be involved in a sign and trade in the other crazy thing that we haven't even talked by like everything this team is going to be a suitor for lonzo ball. And i guess they're going to do that by how exactly they're gonna but they move. I mean maybe if they don't renegotiate accent levin and they moved on from santa anti they could open up twelve million in space. Maybe make that offer our. And they're they're pretty. The bulls are pretty asset pool right now in terms of future picks because not only are they remember. Don't worry i remember..
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"That and the renegotiation extension for levin would be run the order of twelve million or so in extra money this year we double check that basically your renegotiating him up to the max for this year yet which would be not Couldn't quite get him to that. That would be making nineteen point five this year so you get up to thirty one point five for this year. So that's basically new money that he can't get anywhere else. And then you get the extension on top of that. Which would be the max for four years so throw in another hundred fifty one million over that. So you're kind of looking at you through that renegotiation extension on there for what he could have gotten or extra actually getting this year that he just couldn't have gotten so that's about twelve million or so so you're talking about one hundred sixty three million over four years. That's pretty good. That's over forty million dollars a year on that renegotiation and extension essentially. It's i rambled on their salon. We actually lost danny for a second. But he's back now. And i laid out all the numbers. For vac levine renegotiation extension. What the opportunity cost is. Should the chicago bulls renegotiated and extended exactly. I think they should make the offer and levin he's improved a lot. He has established a level of play. This past year. That i didn't expect it living's twenty six. I think. I don't think he's to ever be like a super superstar. I doubt he'll make an deserve making an nba team. But he's a talented player. And the other reason why you make. Why afraid as you make the offer is because you need to know where zach levine stance and the otherwise. The extension system is sufficiently broken. That i think it would be totally reasonable for him to not to not one another extension to see where see what. The market will bear. And if levin isn't willing to renegotiation extension then. I think the bulls need to seriously think about whether they want him on their team. And that's kind of in some ways that's why you wanna have that conversation because you need to know his answer either way and i do think he's worth it but it's always more importantly you need to know whether he wants to do it instead of a catch twenty two because you think well it's all about being competitive with zach levine here. But we can't do as much to be competitive if we have to use cap space on renegotiating extending him but of course if you do that then you have him that glavine as had a very nice rise in terms of his level of improvement. And maybe there's an argument that this guy could be on the level of devon booker or bradley beal although he's not as young as booker but both same ages beal little bit younger than him and that he could be the guy running a very good offense and that sort of a player is potentially deserving of a max contract on the other hand. You made this move for nicole which rich the point of that was to be competitive last year whoops and to be competitive this year and then he's got one more year under contract out for that but he's getting a little bit older so that vuckovich move in some ways that's to placate levin but now you also have to placate him by renegotiating extending him and blunting the impact of the vuckovich move. Because now you can't put as many pieces random another. Maybe kind of compromise could be that the bulls wouldn't have to give him the absolute most amount of money that they could give him this year. All they would have to do is give him about seven million extra for this year. Get him up to about twenty six million and then he could still extend at the max over four years you could get one hundred twenty percent raise off of what they give him this year. That could get them up again. It'd be a little bit dicey in terms of like the cap going out with shouldn't say dicey but we'll inexact those numbers because we don't know what the capital be two years from now but it's not going to go up a ton we know that there's a limit to how much it can go up and the players are essentially still paying back all the pandemic losses to the owners. So that'd be the is. Maybe you could spend seven million of your cap space. And then if you move on from san taransky and stretch him or get off of that money entirely you can still have about fifteen million to work with and then also have the Room exception and that could be enough. Maybe to put a decent team on the floor next to your bring back thais although the whole thais and vuckovich playing together they tried that or tyson young playing together. Know it's not a. I don't know if that's exactly where i'd want to spend my money. If you're going to have young and may we'd go in another direction. Get a wing who can actually play little bit. In addition patrick williams. They also i think you want to open up some time for patrick williams at the four so i'm not sure that bring back. Thais is the best use of that money possibly. But he's a good player. And maybe the bus just player that they could get for that money even though he is another big. Which isn't the perfect fit for them. So that that might be a possibility. you know with zach levine. Be interested in doing that. I think that that might be. Maybe you make that offer at first and kinda see but the other thing too. Is i think if you just play it out with levin you can still offer him the five year deal you can offer them the supermax if he makes all and frankly if he doesn't make all nba like do you really. Are you like oh man like you're you're probably wasn't that great sometimes guys. Just don't make on be because the competition that thirteen guard is always difficult..
Charlie Parker
Houston Rockets End 20-Game Losing Streak With 117-99 Win Over Raptors
"Night with they lost to the Charlotte Hornets 197 and believe it or not. Houston Rockets ended their 20 game losing streak where they went over the Raptors. 1 17 99 Wow 20 came staying 20 games Jazz over the Bulls Won 22 95 Clippers beat the Hawks 1 19 1 10 up next for the Spurs. The Clippers tomorrow night and Thursday. Yeah,
Charlie Parker
AstraZeneca may have used outdated info in vaccine trial
"But the data Safety Monitoring Board, an independent agency that oversaw the trial, now says AstraZeneca may have included outdated info, which provided an incomplete view of how affected the vaccine is. The vaccine was put on hold in more than a dozen European countries this month over concerns about blood clotting, but has since been declared safe. It is yet to be approved by U. S regulators. Well. The Spurs were unable to start their nine game home stand with the wind falling to the Charlotte Hornets last night. 197. The team rallied from a 12 point deficit to tie the game late but were unable to close it out with the win
AP News Radio
Jazz set records for 3s in 132-110 rout of Hornets
"The Utah Jazz used a three point shooting barrage proposed a one thirty two one ten win over the Charlotte Hornets Donovan Mitchell led the jazz in scoring with twenty three points and handed out eight assists as Utah rallied from an eleven point deficit in the second half finally taking control with a twenty six two run George the young scored twenty one points on seven of seven three point shooting well Joe Ingles also had seven three point field goals for twenty one points as a jazz converted on twenty eight three point shots in the game Gordon Hayward and LaMelo ball each scored twenty one points for the Hornets I'm Jim Bernard
Jeff Wagner
Spurs have 4 players test positive; 3 games PPD
"Spurs next three games after four players on the team test positive for covert 19. The Charlotte Hornets, who played the Spurs on Sunday, will have their next two games. Postpone And the Milwaukee Brewers acquired
WTOP
"charlotte hornets" Discussed on WTOP
"A Han 10 45 and Frank Hanrahan really tough night for the Wizards. They were down by as many as 37 points, and they lose the Miami Heat won 22 95 so they cannot make it to straight over. The beaches were not ready to play. Realistically speaking first quarter was out of control already as the Bradley Beal he's leading the guards in the East for the All Star game, But he was not playing like that tonight. Just one of 14. In from the field for seven points. Russell Westbrook had 13 Alex Len off the bench of 18. But again it was all Miami They knocked in 16 3 pointers as they get the victory won 22 95 over the Wizard's five and 14 whiz will visit the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday afternoon. Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets had to, uh Be delayed to get into the game against the rafters. Then they actually took him out of the game in the third quarter, do the health and safety protocols, and he's none too pleased about it. No idea whether he'll be able to play soon or later, someone he came into contact with an associate tested positive for covert 19. And so now they've got to see how he is. Although he has tested three times and has been negative Toronto by the way, beats the Brooklyn Nets minus Durant late in that game, Trevor Bauer, the 2020 National League. You. Award Winners report agreed to join the L. A Dodgers on a three year $102 million deal. Maryland basketball was a loser. Penn State 55 50.
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"charlotte hornets" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"Wtmj O'Connor with you Stay tuned for a buck shoot around 6 P.m.. Followed by the Bucks versus the Charlotte Hornets. Right here on WTMJ. And we're having so have a little fun talking A little sports. Talking about Bill Barn Wells article on ESPN plus And he talked about 17 teams that could trade for the Shawn Watson and he named the Green Bay Packers is one of those teams that basically they could send Aaron Rodgers to San Francisco. Jordan. Love goes to Houston, and in return Green Bay gets to Shawn Watson, who is it was considered to be a top five quarterback in the NFL and is only 25. Aaron Rodgers. It at 37 was about to win. The M V P. This is this is nothing against Aaron Rodgers. This is clearly and truly a would be a business decision. So would you. Would you trade a N V P Quarterback? Who's 37, who's on the Who's On the other end of this prime For a young man who's already considered to be one of the top five quarterbacks in NFL into Shawn Watson and who's only 25. If money was no object. The cap was no object. Would you consider it And would you do it? 85561616 20 on the actor network is talking text line, The nine to old texted It would be very hard to turn it down. I think I would have to do it. And this is coming from a guy who grew up with Aaron under center. Yeah, this isn't this isn't about whether or not Aaron's a, You know, a good dude or bad one, You know, if you know Nothing to do with his his his play in Green Bay. What he's meant to the Packers over the years. This is purely business that you would be trading out in N. V. P. Quarterback. Was 37. Hmm. In a window and listen. I mean, you know Tom Brady aside, most quarterbacks are playing a little longer, especially who were playing at the higher at a high level like Aaron is So you would assume that you've got if you're green Bay, you have Ah, 2 to 3. Season window. To win another Super Bowl. In exchange for young man who's 25 years old. Who's just about interest, Prime Where you could have Conceivably another 10 to 12 years. And you've you've made that you've made that jump from Brett Farve to Aaron Rodgers. Now to do Shawn Watson. Because good quarterbacks the great quarterbacks, Evan, you know this, They don't grow on trees. It's extremely hard. To hit on a quarterback Packers have made it look like look lucky, but look at the team like the Bears. It is very hard to find quarterbacks. It is look at look at the team like the Miami Dolphins. I mean, since Dan Marino I mean, look at the revolving door of quarterbacks that have gone through there. I mean, there's so many teams that would love to have Green Bay's Green Bay situation. I'd love to. So what? Do your thoughts on this? You'll spend a few minutes on this topic. I thought we'd have a little fun and talk a little sports, And I know that the loss of the NFC championship game kind of stings, and I know there's been discussions about Aaron Rodgers future, but I thought this was an interesting article, and I wanted to share it. In case you hadn't seen it or heard about it. If money was no object, and you were the GM of the Green Bay Packers, would you consider Creating Aaron Rodgers for the Shawn Watson 85561616 20 on the acronym Mortgage Talking text line. You're listening to Wtmj. Finally, a place to talk a place to listen. Place that embraces Milwaukee's black community, a place for the truth. The new one on 17 truth is.
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Ball, Hornets dominate Mavs' home opener in 118-99 win
"The Charlotte Hornets rout of the Dallas Mavericks in their home opener one eighteen to ninety nine so the Hornets improved the two into other mass drop to one in three Hornets built up a sixty eight fifty seven lead at halftime then put the game away with a fourteen all run to start the third went up by as many as thirty one and coasted the rest of the way hearted shot fifty one percent from the field to just thirty nine percent for the mass harness with six players in double figures led by LaMelo ball scored twenty two miles bridges at twenty points sixteen boards while the males were led by Tim Hardaway wed eighteen Bob Stevens Dallas
The Jump
Gordon Hayward Day-To-Day With Fractured Finger He Suffered During Hornets Debut
"Charlotte hornets announced. Gordon hayward sustained a fracture on a finger in his writing hand no word on how long he will be out although right now he's being listed as day to day. of course. This is xtra relevant because the hornets just gave gordon a one hundred twenty million dollar contract over the next four years and of course he does have an history recently. So we'll keep an eye on that.
WBZ Midday News
Celtics Training Camp May Kick Off Without Gordon Hayward As He Leaves Boston for Charlotte
"Camp camp for for the the Boston Boston Celtics. Celtics. But many are still talking about the teams off season with the opt out of Gordon Hayward, followed by the sign and trade with the Charlotte Hornets. And although there were many rumors about trades the Celtics could have made President of basketball operations Danny Ainge said today he won't discuss player names, but there were trade discussions. But I'm just saying that, you know, we did have a discussion with Indiana not gonna go into the details. And we knew what the risks were, and we knew what all the options we could do. Signing grades with Indiana with Charlotte, and we thought that any one of those options were good like number One option was getting Gordon to come back and the Red Sox
Get Up!
NBA free agency: Jayson Tatum agrees to extension with Boston Celtics and Gordon Hayward's big move to Charlotte Hornets
"Let me run the floor through a bunch of nba moves. That got made yesterday in case you didn't see this. There was a bunch of stuff and it begins with huge money for jason tatum and the celtics. He's agreed to a five year extension with boston for at least a hundred and sixty three million dollars with incentives. It goes up to that number. You see there of one hundred ninety five twenty. Two years old made his first all star team last year. Lead boston to the conference. Finals were also getting paid gordon hayward now the former celtic signs of four year one hundred twenty million dollar contract with charlie. He spent three mostly disappointing seasons in boston. End up missing one hundred and forty two games because of injuries after missing just forty two his first seven years in utah and speaking of utah. Donovan mitchell a five year extension with the jazz. That could be worth as much as one hundred ninety million dollars. Submitting his star status in the orlando bubbly average. Nearly thirty seven a game in utah. Seven game a playoff series loss to the nuggets celebrated the new contract with the dive into the
Bloomberg Businessweek
Sources: Melo to return to Blazers on 1-year deal
"The NBA. One knew Nick and one Nick brought back. They signed for agent Nerlens Noel, who was last with the thunder and they bring back Elfrid. Payton both get one year deals worth five million. Four year deal worth 120 million for Gordon Hayward in the Charlotte Hornets. Hayward to turn down his player option with the Celtics this past week, Carmelo Anthony react to the Blazers on the one year deal. Paul Millsap goes back to Denver on a one year contract, where
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Gordon Hayward Signs 4-Year Deal With Charlotte Hornets
"Glory of moves continue in the MBA, with Gordon Hayward, leaving the Boston Celtics with Charlotte Hornets. A four year contract for $120 million
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Gordon Hayward, Charlotte Hornets agree on four-year, $120 million deal
"Rah John Rondo has signed a two year deal with the Atlanta Hawks. And Packers News Davante Adams returned to practice yesterday. He is likely to play in
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Anthony Edwards Drafted No. 1 by the Minnesota Timberwolves
"Month away, the MBA finally held his draft Wednesday night with the University of Georgia's Anthony Edwards going first overall to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Edwards at 6 FT five guard from Atlanta was the Southeastern Conference freshman of the year last season and let all freshmen in the nation averaging 19.1 points a game. Memphis center James Wiseman went second to the Golden State Warriors and low mellow ball went third to the Charlotte Hornets after playing in Lithuania and Australia last season for
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NBA Mock Draft 3.0
"And we are back talking two thousand twenty mock draft three point o our last mock draft of the year. It's draft day draft morning. What better to unwrap and a mock draft on draft morning. it's the second round. Now now's the time to confess. I'm really terrible at projecting second rounds like you know my hit rate and some drafts has been like one two three picks in the second round. It's it's so hard to keep track of the first round the wheels to sort of come off and these picks happened like every two minutes. I it's hard to really keep track. I did my best. I project where. I think particular players can go. You definitely don't really get deep into this when you're talking the nba scouts in executives about what they're going to do in the second round. They're still trying to figure out the first round as well. So i've tried to find some fits there so this is reported more chad ford speculation. Here about what's happening. The second round starts with the dallas mavericks this pick via the warriors taking malachi. Flynn the san diego state. Junior point guard One of the guys that frankly could go ten spots higher in the draft. I actually really love malachi flynn. There's kind of a lot of point guards kind of later in the first round which may push him out a little bit. But i actually think he's the guy who could step in play right away. I would actually love him in dallas. I think that'd be great. Pick for dallas at thirty one at thirty two. The charlotte hornets are on the board. They're getting this pick via the cavs. Paul read the sophomore forward center out of depaul. Have them going thirty two. This is john. Hollinger's been super high on all year. I think he's another guy who can guard positions on the floor. I really like him. Actually think he brings some stuff offensively as well. I personally like him. Better than precious. I'm right now. Could turn out to be a terrible take. But it's kind of what i think and i definitely think he could be an excellent fit. I'm in charlotte. Especially if they end up with lamelo ball and they're gonna need to add a defensive big man. As part of that package at thirty-three the minnesota timberwolves around the board. This'll be the third pick because they have to. First round picks. Tillman the junior power forward at michigan state. Everybody loves this kid. He's he's one of these guys like high floor. Low ceiling. just does his work every day. Great rebound or plays hard. I'm ken defend going. Bring be a great locker room guy is gonna find some rotation that somewhere I like him in minnesota on a team. That is trying to go forward. I think he actually adds a bit of a veteran presence to the locker room. At thirty four the philadelphia seventy sixers are on the clock. That get this. Pick via the hawks. Isaiah joe the arkansas shooting guard who is one of the best shooters in this draft. Crazy range. High volume of three point shots philadelphia. Always in need shooters. When you're going to be playing. Ben simmons on this team he certainly constructs the floor. And i'd like isaiah joe there them at thirty five the sacramento kings Via the pistons. Dan dotson to kansas sophomore guard. Who is one of the quickest players in the draft. He's an elite score excels off the getting to the basket not a great shooter a bit undersized for his position not really a point guard that's why he slides a few spots higher but could be instant offense off the bench for sacrimento at thirty five at thirty six the philadelphia seventy sixers back on the clock this time via that pick from the mix jordan aura the louisville junior who also is one of the better shooters in this draft. He has good size vers position. Good length i'm not sure exactly what else he brings to the table besides shooting but again i'm just loading philly up i with shooters at the moment at thirty seven. The washington wizards are on the board. They get this pick via the chicago. Bulls tyler bay the junior ford out of colorado who is one of the best athletes in the strath super explosive. Really hard worker on the defensive end still just kinda coming along on the offensive. And then i think that's been a concern. He's he's one of those guys that might be a little bit of a twitter. Not sure exactly what position he plays in the pros that causes him to slide. A few picks in this draft think this is still really value. and by the way when. We're talking about a lot of these guys dotson. Tillman for example malachi flan. These guys could all end up in the first round as well. Just have them the second thirty eight new york knicks via the hornets janis ramsey. The texas tech freshman guard again volume score can shoot it a little bit We're just loading the knicks up now with backward guys that can score the basketball. I'm not sure who's going to defend in new york. But he's an intriguing prospect. He's only nineteen years old. And i certainly there's upside there with the thirtieth pick in the draft at thirty nine the new orleans. Pelicans selecting this pick for the wizards. Daniela touro the minnesota sophomore center. Who had a really really strong summer season one of the more improved players in the country very skilled at big man. I'm great size. Adding just bore skill in size to this pelicans roster i'm at the moment If you remember earlier jalen smith. I'm selected at thirteen at forty. The grizzlies are on the board. This pick via the silence. This is the first pick that the grizzlies have been able to make in the twenty twenty. Nba draft a doco as a bouquet. The kansas center. Big guy seven. Seven wingspan seven footer. Really good athlete actually just dominant player in the pain. Terrible free throw. Shooter doesn't really do anything facing the basket. But when you have that size and length and athleticism. I think you get something done in. The and kind of reminds me deondraye jordan. A little bit and a little bit surprised. He doesn't go higher. I get there seems to be a penalty on the big minner plane or pain. Right now in the draft at forty one san antonio spurs back on the on the board yama dr the israeli guard nineteen year old for hop. Well tel-aviv and you know. He's such an intriguing prospect because he plays his butt off. His incredible energy is just making a difference when he's out there but he's not really a point guard. He's kind of more of a two guard in a point guards body. He's not like a great shooter. I'm athletically he's actually not bad at all but that lack of a jump shot kinda undersized i position that makes him more of a second round prospect at he absolutely wants to leave israel and come to the nba. And if it's the g. league next year and so he could be an interesting prospect for san antonio developed down the road